The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 4) — Page 45
PT. 16 36. "It does <mark>not</mark> MARYAM Majesty of Allah to take unto Himself a CH. 19 مَا كَانَ لِلَّهِ أَنْ يَتَّخِذَ مِنْ وَلَدٍ سُبْحَنَه befit the اِذَا قَضَى أَمْرًا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُ كُنُ son Holy is He فَيَكُونُ When He decrees a thing, He says to it, 'Be!', and it is. 2180 10:69; 17:112; 18:5; 19:89; 21:27; 25:3; 39:5. birth constituted a rebuke and a warning to the Israelites that on account of their persistent rejection of truth and <mark>God</mark>'s Messengers, and their immoral practices the whole Israelite nation had been rendered quite unfit to give birth to a Prophet of <mark>God</mark> and therefore prophethood, in accordance with <mark>God</mark>'s covenant with Abraham, was transferred from the House of Israel to that of Ishmael (see Introduction to this Surah). They further believe that <mark>Jesus</mark> was hung on the cross by the Jews but did <mark>not</mark> die there and was taken down from it alive and for three days remained in a (son of man) but this epithet has been used in the Bible for other persons also. So (son of Mary) is at once a distinctive and descriptive name of <mark>Jesus</mark>. 2180. Important Words: It does <mark>not</mark> befit the Majesty) ما كان الله does <mark>not</mark> befit him; behove him; it is of Allah). They say a obl. i. e. (1) it inconsistent with his dignity; it is <mark>not</mark> proper for him; (2) it is beyond his a 6. means, it is inconsistent with power to do so. In the present verse the Majesty of Allah or it does <mark>not</mark> Mufradāt). See also 2:35. befit His Holiness (Aqrab, Lane & Commentary: express two ان يتخذ من ولد The words senses (a) that He should have a son; and (b) that He should adopt someone as His son. When it is inconsistent with <mark>God</mark>'s Majesty to adopt someone as His son, it is all the more repugnant to His Holiness and Glory to have a real son. These words repudiate the Christian belief, namely tomb hewn out of a rock and then travelled to Kashmir to preach his Message to the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. He lived up to the ripe old age of 120 years, died a natural death and lies buried in Khanyar street in Srinagar, Kashmir. In fact, the existence of so many and so serious differences about <mark>Jesus</mark> implies a rebuke to Christians that there is <mark>not</mark>hing certain about their <mark>god</mark>. The expression "son of Mary" ( (i) that <mark>God</mark> has adopted <mark>Jesus</mark> as His ☑) is <mark>Jesus</mark>' distinctive name. Whereas on the one hand it seems to point to his fatherless birth, on the other it confers on him a name which is incapable of being confused with that of anybody else. The Gospels have also used for <mark>Jesus</mark> the epithet 1959 son or (ii) that <mark>Jesus</mark> is <mark>God</mark>'s son. Christians believe that <mark>Jesus</mark> was <mark>God</mark>'s son. The onus for proving such a manifestly absurd belief lies on them. They base this belief on the assumption that the Bible calls him the son of <mark>God</mark>. But in the Bible other